Makoto Shinkai (your name., Weathering With You) revealed the title heroine’s visual, a still, and the November 11 opening for his first new film in three years, Suzume no Tojimari (literally, Suzume’s Door-Locking), on Saturday.
The film’s still shows Suzume from behind, walking to what appears to be a small former hot springs town. “A ryokan-style inn lies derelict and abandoned, the rooms overrun with curling ivy, signs pitted and rusted…” The teaser video for the film will debut on the TOHO Movie channel on YouTube on Sunday, April 10 at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 a.m. EDT).
Shinkai is directing the film and writing the screenplay. He is also credited with the original story. Masayoshi Tanaka (your name., Weathering With You) is designing the characters. Kenichi Tsuchiya (your name., Garden of Words) is the animation director. Takumi Tanji (Children Who Chase Lost Voices) is the art director. CoMix Wave Films and Story Inc. are producing the movie. TOHO is distributing the film.
The staff planned out the project from January to March of 2020, developed the script from April to August of that year, and drafted the storyboards from September 2020 to December 2021. The actual animation production began in April 20221 and is continuing up to now.
Shinkai’s most recent film, Weathering With You, opened in Japan in July 2019. The film became the #7 highest-earning domestic film of all time in Japan (now #8 after Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train), and was the highest-grossing film in Japan in 2019.
Shinkai’s your name. film opened in Japan in August 2016, and has become the fifth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the third highest-grossing Japanese film, and the third highest-grossing anime film.
Shinkai’s other works include 5 Centimeters Per Second, Voices of a Distant Star, She and Her Cat, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, The Garden of Words, and Children Who Chase Lost Voices.
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